> You are not enumerating your trade-offs very well. There are natural
> conflicts. What is you really want?
>
> - Being able to pre-build and distribute? We have done that since the last
> 5C1990s with .deb packages.
>
> - Being able to install with minimal size? Have you queried your users?
> > Docker R containers are north of 250 MB. I have checked experimentally that
> > you can trim R down to 16 MB (!) and you'll still be able to execute it
> > (though with warnings). That *is* quite a difference, especially when
> > deploying small applications.
> ... I would guesstimate the
> | Is there a way to overcome this problem? Precompiled versions of R can be
> installed on various system configurations, so I guess that there should be a
> way to compile it in a version-agnostic manner.
>
> Yes, for example by
>
> -- using a Docker container which is portable across OSs
Hello and apologies if this doesn't belong here.
I'm trying to build a "portable" version of R - "portable" means that it could
be easily moved to another location or machine simply by copying it. However, I
encountered a problem when running it elsewhere: it seems that versions of
dynamic libr
